Joni Mitchell – A Strange Boy (Guitar)

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[Intro] | D | D | D | D | x2 [Verse 1]
D          Bm
[tab]A                      Gsus2
 A course of grace and havoc

     G                   Gsus2
On a yellow skateboard

                     D
Thru midday sidewalk traffic

D                       Bm
 Just when I think he's foolish and childish

A                     Gsus2
 And I want him to be manly

  G                    Gsus2
I catch my fool and my child

                 D
Needing love and understanding
[Verse 2]
Gsus2               G
     What a strange strange boy

Gsus2                        G
     He still lives with his family

C                     F
 Even the war and the navy

D                      D  C  D
 Couldn't bring him to maturity
[Verse 3]
D                           Bm
 He keeps referring back to school days

A                    Gsus2
 And clinging to his child

G
Fidgeting and bullied

Gsus2                         D
     His crazy wisdom holding onto something wild

D                  Bm
 He asked me to be patient

       A
Well I failed

           Gsus2
"Grow up!" I cried

    G                            Gsus2
And as the smoke was clearing he said

                         D
"Give me one good reason why"
[Verse 4]
Gsus2               G
     What a strange strange boy

Gsus2                    G
     He sees the cars as sets of waves

C                  F
 Sequences of mass and space

D                   C     D
 He sees the damage in my face
[Verse 5]
D               Bm
 We got high on travel

A                    Gsus2
 And we got drunk on alcohol

       G                  Gsus2                  D
And on love the strongest poison and medicine of all

D                               Bm
 See how that feeling comes and goes

A                      Gsus2
 Like the pull of moon on tides

G
Now I am surf rising

Gsus2                    D
     Now parched ribs of sand at his side
[Verse 6]
Gsus2               G
     What a strange strange boy

Gsus2                       G
     I gave him clothes and jewelry

C                   F
 I gave him my warm body

D                 C    D
 I gave him power over me
[Verse 7]
D                      Bm
 A thousand glass eyes were staring

A                    Gsus2
 In a cellar full of antique dolls

   G
I found an old piano

Gsus2                      D
     And sweet chords rose up in waxed New England halls

D                        Bm
 While the boarders were snoring

      A                     Gsus2
Under crisp white sheets of curfew

        G
We were newly lovers then

        Gsus2                         D            Bm  A  D
We were fire in the stiff blue-haired house rules
[Outro] | G | Gsus2 | D | D | | D | D | D | D | x4